Footnotes
- Interreligious Meeting Address of His Holiness, Istiqlal Mosque (Jakarta, Indonesia), Thursday, September 5, 2024, https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/september/documents/20240905-indonesia-incontro-interreligioso.html, 9/5/24
- “A Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” February 4, 2019, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2019/outside/documents/papa-francesco_20190204_documento-fratellanza-umana.html; See also Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, Theological and Canonical Implications of the Declaration Signed by Pope Francis in Abu Dhabi, February 27, 2019, https://www.tfp.org/theological-and-canonical-implications-of-the-declaration-signed-by-pope-francis-in-abu-dhabi/ 9/16/24
- Interreligious Meeting Address Of His Holiness, Istiqlal Mosque (Jakarta, Indonesia), Thursday, September 5, 2024, https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/september/documents/20240905-indonesia-incontro-interreligioso.html 9/5/24
- In his encyclical Pascendi, St. Pius X writes that for the Modernists, man “experiences within himself” a need of the divine that “excites in a soul with a propensity toward religion a certain special sentiment.” This sentiment unites man with God, the saint explains, and “it is this sentiment to which Modernists give the name of faith and which they consider the beginning of religion. … For Modernism finds in this sentiment not faith only, but with and in faith, as they understand it, revelation, they say, abides.”
In other words, for the Modernists, both revelation and dogma were the fruit of individual religious experience and thus vary according to the different “experiences” and cultures of different eras. That’s why, for them, we can’t talk about a single faith, a single true religion. - Michael Haynes, Pope Francis skips Sign of the Cross to imparting blessing “valid-for-all religions, https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-skips-sign-of-the-cross-to-impart-blessing-valid-for-all-religions/ 0/8/24
- NTERRELIGIOUS MEETING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE. ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS. “Catholic Junior College (Singapore). Friday, September 13, 2024. https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2024/september/documents/20240913-singapore-giovani.html 09/17/2024 16:27
- Cf. Aiken, Charles Francis. “Hinduism.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07358b.htm; Wendy Doniger, Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists?, https://academic.oup.com/book/11527/chapter-abstract/160293697?redirectedFrom=fulltext 9/17/24
- Papal Encyclicals online, Mirari Vos, August 15, 1832, n. 13, https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Greg16/g16mirar.htm 9/17/24
- Bishop Marian Eleganti, No access to the Father without JESUS CHRIST. Mission is an omission of Jesus, https://www.marian-eleganti.ch/blog (our translations) 9/18/24
- Bishop J. Strickland @BishStrickland, 10:04 AM · September 13, 2024 (X). See also https://vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html.
- CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, DECLARATION “DOMINUS IESUS” ON THE UNICITY AND SALVIFIC UNIVERSALITY OF JESUS CHRIST AND THE CHURCH, n. 19, https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html
- (Luke 22:32).
- INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION, SENSUS FIDEI IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH*
(2014), n. 50, https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_cti_20140610_sensus-fidei_en.html#2._Manifestations_of_the_sensus_fidei_in_the_personal_life_of_believers 9/18/24 - Document note: “Thomas Aquinas, Scriptum, III, d.25, q.2, a.1, qla 4, ad 3: ‘[The believer] must not give assent to a prelate who preaches against the faith… The subordinate is not totally excused by his ignorance. In fact, the habitus of faith inclines him against such preaching because that habitus necessarily teaches whatever leads to salvation. Also, because one must not give credence too easily to every spirit, one should not give assent to strange preaching but should seek further information or simply entrust oneself to God without seeking to venture into the secrets of God beyond one’s capacities.’ “
- Cf. Thomas Aquinas, Scriptum, III, d.25, q.2, a.1, qla 2, ad 3; Quaestiones disputatae de veritate, q.14, a.11, ad 2.
- Readers interested in the Urban Renewal fiasco may want to read The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (1961).